Kadin is entirely shot at the beautiful place of Batanes, the movie evolves on the dilemma of an Ivatan boy named Peping and his sister Lita, who wakes up to find out that their goat "gima" is missing. His family makes a living out of the milk provided by gima and his father would arrive, who leaves the responsibility in taking care of gimma to peping, so he needs to find the goat before its too late.
The cinematography is so great that it really makes you go "wow" at the beautiful sceneries of the place, and i think that the cinematography is not overwhelmed, i think it just justifies the mood that the director wants to build.
It is a slow movie but its not boring, i think that the director wants the viewer to feel that living in that rural area is kinda boring.
i love the innocence of the story, if you would think, the story is so simple but it really touches the heart of the viewers because you would really feel how peping love gimma so much that he really travels a long way just to find the goat.
Over-all kadin for me is a wonderful work for it portrays beautiful sceneries of the Philippines and the values that filipinos have
The Gardener of Eden is an experimental film made by James Broughton, it is a poetry in video which is shot at Sri Lanka, and it was shot by James Singer
The film shows different sceneries of Sri Lanka while someone is narrating it, (try to watch it at UBU.com)
Its a poetry in video that shows god keeping an eye for the many things he created and see the many changes in it
The sceneries of Sri Lanka is a good place to shoot this kind of work for it really makes you feel your in paradise, but the music makes my head aches because of the screeching sound and the camera isn't stable, but i think that the director have reasons for it, i think that the camera was moved that way for us to feel dizzy, because the director want us to feel like we were God, a single divinity to watch billions of things of his creation.
I like how James Broughton narrates the poem, he just simply narrate it, as a poem-writer myself i think thats the most important thing in writing poems, make the people feel what your saying
The movie opens with the voice of Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) narrating the story of the "Cube", "All-spark" and how Megatron betrayed them, and the movie focuses on the quest for the "cube" and the battle of Autobots and Decepticons for the cube to rule the whole universe.
With state-of-the art special effects, the movie really gets the audiences applause and "wows", the robots really blends with the humans naturally, the humor have a kick eventhough that the movie has a lot of war scenes that keeps the audiences thrilled.
The thing i love in transformers is that the scene is very natural, i mean the blending of robots and humans are great it makes me feel that those giant robots really exist in this world.
Transformers really hit the heart of the audiences because Micheal Bay really guided his actors and actresses even the animation staff well. If you want high-quality action-packed film, Transformers is a must see movie for you
Tribu by Jim Libiran is set on downtown tondo, a place where drug dealers,snatchers,hold-uppers and alikes are scattered. a miserable place full of violence. a place were GANGS or TRIBES set to battle for supremacy.
The film shows the typical gangster life, but some of the scenes in this movie is not somewhat realistic, I live in tondo, i even saw some gang wars, and how Jim Libiran shows the gangwar makes me say "Hindi naman ganun yun eh!".
like the scene where the two gangs meet and just point guns and their weapons. in reality when a gang went to the so-called territory of the opponent, no questions asked, you'll just hear the shot of guns and scream for help.
But the rest is really true, like the "sarap o hirap" thing when joining a gang, the drug dilemma and the likes.
But i love the acting of the actors, it's so natural, and they didn't follow the original script, they made they're own script and freestyle rap. and the story really based on the reality - how tondo life really is
To sum-up tribu really deserves the 2 titles it gathered at the cinemalaya 2007
What i love in this movie is the use of "parkour" (recreational activity of French origin, the aim of which is to move from point A to point B as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the abilities of the human body -Wikepedia). Its entertaining and amazing to watch actors like David and Cyril swings from one place to another with grace and precision. The movie is action-packed thats why it's not boring.
Banlieue 13 is really an entertaining movie but there are this some superhuman inconsistencies in the story ( i dont want to spoil because that scene is where something would happen =P). But despite its story inconsistencies the movie is a really fun to watch.
The movie focuses on Mike Enslin (John Cusack) as he search for the most scariest and most haunted places on earth, and a postcard invitation that tells him to stay in Dolphin Hotel but not in the room #1408. But due to his curiosity, Mike find a way just for Mr. Geral Oldin (Samuel L. Jackson) to give the key to the room despite of the warning that he gave him. Mike suceeded in getting the room's key and when he stayed in the room 1408, Mike find his self trapped in the room and haunted by his darkest fears.
I commend John Cusack for portraying his role very well and to Samuel L. Jackson for eventhough he has a limited appearance in the movie he really made a wonderful act.
But now as i talk generally about the wole movie, I dont like the scenes where there are ghost and then they look like a hologram pictures, and when they disappear there's this some kind of a techno sound which makes me ask "is that a ghost or a hologram?". and there are so many scenes thats edited, because in the story, Enslin's dilemma already started the moment he see's the door of the room for the door's room is crooked, but in the movie Enslin already spent some time in the room before the nightmare happens. A lot of editing that makes the story weak and more vague.
I think that the movie would be much better if they retain the original story, and use the appropriate special effects.
My professor was right when he said that this film is really a good example of a film with great cinematography, the computer generated images (CGIs) are very great, it was balanced, because as we know too much of it would make the work look like a sci-fi or a fantasy film. But what i like most is how the story was narrated. I commend John Cale for such a wonderful narration, he really set the mood of the film. I love how Dave McKean narrates the story, he didn't give it all at the first part, he makes the audience think, because at first i thought that it was a man who is afraid of settling down, for he talked about his childhood friends settling down, he makes me crave for the meaning of his work. Dave McKean blended the elements well, from the story to the cinematoraphy and even the background music fits the film well.
I didn't watch all the entries for the digital competion, but i think that this movie really deserves to be the winner. There's nothing more i can say but im hands down.
